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Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

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Category : Bradford (Haverhill, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States

Author: Hampton Lawrence Carson
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 802

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Oration by Frederick Douglass. Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1876, with an Appendix

Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385512875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States: Civic and industrial procession, September 15, 1887; report of A. L. Snowden, chairman and marshal. Appendix to the report of the chief marshal. Military display, September 16, 1887; report of C. P. Paine, chairman of the military committee. Memorial day, ceremonies in Independence square, September 17, 1887. Breakfast to the Supreme court of the United States, by the bar of Philadelphia, September 15, 1887. Dinner of the Hibernian society, September 17, 1887. Banquet given by the learned societies of Phila., September 17, 1887. Dinner given by the citizens of Phila. to the Hon. John A. Kasson, President of the Constitutional centennial commission, October 13, 1887. Plans for the union of the British colonies of North America, 1643-1776, comp. by F. D. Stone

Author: Hampton Lawrence Carson
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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American Scripture

Author: Pauline Maier
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307791955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's []Common Sense[], which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions -- most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries -- that explained, advocated, and justified Independence and undergirded Congress's work. Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson. Maier also reveals what happened to the Declaration after the signing and celebration: how it was largely forgotten and then revived to buttress political arguments of the nineteenth century; and, most important, how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in American society. Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power.

Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States

Oration by Frederick Douglass. Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1876, with an Appendix

American Scripture

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